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Sri Lanka's Vesak celebrations, including parades and public offerings, reveal striking similarities to Hindu festivals in Kerala, suggesting a shared historical Buddhist legacy impacting Keralan society, art, and education.
Ahead of the 1911 Delhi Durbar, which marked the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as emperor and empress of India, many civil servants in India tried to curry favour with the colonial rulers.
The missionary, best remembered in Kerala for getting the first four books of the Bible’s New Testament translated to Malayalam, had served as a chaplain in Bengal for several years.
In 1936, the 24-year-old Maharaja Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma passed the Travancore Temple Entry Proclamation decree, but this had no bearing on those who lived outside the princely state. Guruvayur was then in the Malabar district of the Madras province.
While serving as the Diwan of Cochin from 1919 to 1922, Vijayaraghavacharya focused on industrialization of the princely state as well as improving educational standards, including female literacy.
When Dr A Sankunni Mannadiar, a professor at Madras Medical College decided to marry a Scottish woman, it was an act of courage and defiance from both of them.
C S Ranga Iyer wrote a book, titled ‘Father India’ that brilliantly exposed Mayo’s work ‘Mother India’ for the racist colonial drivel that it was.
Malayalam helped blur religious and caste distinctions among the diaspora.
A correspondent of The Times, London, was so fascinated by backwaters and the old-world 'States of Cochin and Travancore'.
He was often referred to as the “Jewish Gandhi” and fought against the discrimination faced by the Malabari Jews at the hands of the Paradesi Jews.
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